If you recognized and used any or all of these, you're officially old...
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I kept and used an atlas (book of maps) in the seat back pocket of my first car, a 1972 Chevrolet Impala
And yes, it had hand cranked windows, no A/C and an AM radio
The Yellow Pages was the internet of my youth
And just the other day, I was thinking to myself how small the flat screen in my Florida room is, until I remembered the 25 inch CRT console with manual tuning that used to take up a whole corner of the room and was for the longest time 30 years ago, the only television in the house
Today, we have 6 flat screens for 3 people to watch and every one of them is at least twice the screen size of that old Zenith console and can be lifted with just one hand
And sometimes, I still say, "Call me on my landline"
I was born November 14 1950 and yes, I'm that old. My dad did work for Bell Canada for 35years and he did have to make changes from the old hand cranked telephones to the dial ones. This was in the beginning of the 60's. For TV, my grand father had in the mid 50's the only Zenith B&W TV set in the village and many were coming in his living room to watcht the first NHL hockey games on TV. He did have around 1960 a first Zenith TV with a remote control. I again can remember the «click click » sound of it.
ReplyDeleteWow! Thanks for sharing... it was a trip down memory lane. My parents had in their bedroom a Zenith B/W set with the "Space Command" ultrasonic remote. It used no batteries, the click was the striker hitting a tuning fork inside that the TV was always listening for (before TVs started listening to what you say now). Depending on which frequency was produced by the remote, it would either engage a motor attached to the tuner knob to move to the next of the few channels available then, or move through several preset volume levels and then turn the TV off. I distinctly remember loving the sound of that motor running through the channels.
DeleteWOW! We have similar memories. We got our first color TV in 1971 when I was in my first year at university. We could afford it because my «lucky» mom won some money ($500/Can) in a Sears contest.
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